memory test failed error message upon boot

I would check to make sure the memory is seated properly........... long shot

I would take the memory back to place of purchase and have them test it..

bill

Maybe it's as simple as dirty or oxidized contacts on the mem strip contacts. Try removing the RAM & rubbing the gold contacts lightly with a pencil eraser, then reseat them.

Some time ago I had seen a similar prob.  I don't remembre the which bios, but the prob. went away simply by selecting the bios setup, making a trivial change, & then saving & exiting.  More likely though is as mentioned above, poorly seated or just bad ram.  Good Luck!!!

Drop down to a 66 MHz bus speed.  If the problem goes away, your RAM isn't truly PC-100 compliant.  You can have a few options if this is the case:

1)  Increase the bus speed one step at a time to see what the highest bus speed your RAM can handle and just live with a slower bus speed.  If it runs at 95 MHz, which it might, you may not notice a speed difference.

2)  Go back to 100 MHz and play with the RAM settings in the BIOS to see if you can get it to work.  You'll see a slight performance decrease, though, if you do this, since you're basically slowing the system down to work with the RAM.

3)  Buy new RAM that is PC-100 or higher compliant.

I went back to the shop where I bought my system. They replaced the ram and everything works fine now.  It was just bad ram. I didn't realize it at first because everything was working well and coincedentially I loaded new software, so I assumed that the problem was a software one.

Thank you all for your suggestions.

Since it was bad RAM, and you brought it back to the place of purchase, as oldgreyguy suggested, he deserves the points on this one.

As thoffman suggests, since oldgreyguy was correct, he will get the points. But I do not know how to actually award the points. I suppose someone has to "lock the question" when they answer it?